Sr. Business Analyst - Private Markets

Description
One of TEKsystems Clients is looking for a Sr. BA/BSA on a 6-month contract to start. The project aims at streamlining the ways they invest money in global credit as well as manage the investments once they are made. Need to streamline how you invest, IMCO as an asset manager pools money and invests in assets. They are optimizing the way they pool money. The new BSA will help them look at requirements - if they need to optimize pooling strategy. Once the pooling is done the portfolio monitoring is similar to what they are doing for Novus. Floating all the assets into new portfolio monitoring system, which will be a new system for global credit. Optimizing they invest money in global credit and streamline the way they manage assets once the investments are made.
Stakeholders:
- Private Market Departments
- Front Office
- Investment Operations
- Implementation Partner (PWC)
- Vendors
Job Requirements:
As a Member of Our Team You Will be Responsible For:
Act as primary liaison and technical advisor to investment management teams across all private markets asset classes (Infrastructure, Private Equity, Global Credit and Real Estates)
Work with project implementation team to evaluate available systems. Assist with the development of evaluation criteria and scoring matrix
Participate in vendor demonstrations and product evaluations. Provide recommendations to executives
Lead planning and direct analysis discussion with business stakeholders to ensure full understanding of organizational objectives and priorities
Provide guidance and carry-out business analysis, and translate into technical specifications and solutions
Partner with all stakeholders, including investment management, development, infrastructure, and third-party vendors, to develop solutions to supports investment strategies and corporate objectives
Oversee and lead detail process mapping, and document findings as related to investment operations
Contribute to business cases for systems implementations, and participate in RFP and due diligence processes
Manage enhancements of investment operations and workflows including downstream processing and investment reporting
Lead implementation of new investment systems solutions to support all front office functions, including all public and private markets asset classes, total portfolio management and public markets alternatives
Engage technology architects and other IT partners to determine dependency and impact to the overall investment systems architecture
Manage, design and execute the testing process to ensure visibility, traceability, and effective execution to deliver high quality solutions
Disseminate knowledge and information with other team members in collaborative manner
Conduct risk-benefits analysis in clear technical and non-technical language
Think creatively to design solutions with a forward-thinking approach to best accommodate future opportunities in IMCO's growing environment
Ensure adherence to IMCO's processes and procedures, and the overall supportability of all solutions with proper documentation and training
Strive to improve environment stability by working with others to set up and maintain production configurations
Continuously elevate service levels with all business users
Monitor operational risk and systems performance management in all initiatives
Represent IT team to plan and execute DR/BCP
What do you need to succeed?
Experience in systems selection and implementation for portfolio management and reporting
Deep understanding of the private market asset classes deal flow and operations
Direct working experience of front office operations across different asset classes and teams
Comprehensive knowledge of internal and external investment workflows and trading lifecycle
Multiple implementation experience of public and private markets investment systems such as portfolio management and analytical systems, order management systems, and research platforms, including total portfolio view and analytics by asset class and strategy
Familiar with private markets investment workflows such as origination and deal flow of direct and co-investment
Strong experience in data aggregation from multiple sources and investment reporting
Demonstrated ability to play multiple hands-on roles such as project management, requirement analysis, solution design and visioning, planning, testing, and solutions implementation
Experience with systems and data integration with book of record applications and custody platforms
Prior leadership role in other investment IT organization
Undergraduate degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline with a minimum of ten years of experience in the asset management or investment industry
Knowledge of systems development life-cycles including planning, requirement, analysis, design, build, testing, implementation and post-implementation activities in agile and waterfall approaches
Excellent communication skills, ability to communicate comfortably with both business and technical teams
Domain knowledge in IT service management such as incident management, change management, configuration management and operations management
Prior involvement with third-party vendors, internal and external operational audits
CFA, CBAP, PMI-PBA, CSC, Lean and/or Six Sigma, or PMP designation is preferred
Experience with Bloomberg trading platforms, Managed Account Platform, Eagle (Data Management, Performance and Accounting Solutions), Ortec Glass, Argus Enterprise, MSCI BarraOne, SSCNet, Dynamo, FINCAD, MATLAB and SQL
Skills
Business analysis, Sql, Requirements gathering, Requirement gathering, Business requirements, Analysis, Data, Data analysis, Business process, Systems analysis
Top Skills Details
Business analysis,Sql,Requirements gathering,Requirement gathering,Business requirements,Analysis
Additional Skills & Qualifications
1) 10+ Years of Business Analysis Experience
2) Private Market System Implementation or Private Markets Experience
- Systems: Chronograph, Mercatus, Burgiss Caissa , iLevel, Cobalt, eFront, Investran, efront
- Process: Deal CRM, Deal Closing, Portfolio Monitoring, Valuations, Asset Operations & Treasury
3) Business and Technology Delivery Experience
Nice to Haves:
1) Data Analysis: SQL & Python
Experience Level
Expert Level
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Toronto, ON.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $100.00 - $105.00/hr.
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Toronto,ON.

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